The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-10-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS,

WIOCUNSlN STATE NEWS.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, 7014a7Oloc
Corn-No. 8, 42lac. 0ats-No. 2, 2So. Rye
No 1, SOC Barley, 59c.
At Watertown few days ago Miss Maggie
Jones, daughter of Griffith Jones, was found
dead in bed
Hylen Morse, Of Johnstown Center Rock
County, died recently from s carbuncle on
the back of the neck
George Robinson, of Gibson, Manitowoc
County, was recently caught under stump
which he was removing with stump puller
and his head was crushed, killing him in
stantly
Much hay in Marquette County is reported
damaged in stack The corn fodder is in
some instances almost made worthless by
the rains
test or large number of wells in the
business part of Sheboygan shows that the
water is generally unfit for use, containing
| traces of organic matter
Martin Gleason, fourteen years old whose
| home was near Lancaster, went cunning
the other day and accidentally shot him
self
GAINESVILLE was closed by creditors che other
morning. The liabilities were something
over So, 900; assets unknown
At Port Washington few days ago Ernst
Pfeifer was sentenced to imprisonment for
life for the murder of Charles Tillapaugh
April 81.
The barn and contents belonging to D. c.
Richardson, in tbs town of Lincoln, Eau
Claire County, was destroyed by the explo
sion of lantern the other night Five
horses were cremated, and other property,
consisting of fifty tons of hay, seven stacks
of grain and thresher, all amounting to
over 81, 600 in value, were burned. Insured
for one-half
Nut-bearing chestnut trees, perhaps the
only ones In Wisconsin, are growing on
Melindy's praiSie, three miles north of Pal
nyra. The trees grew from nuts brought
from Vermont forty-eight years ago, and
planted by the late D. F. Melindy when he
first settled on Melindy's prairie The trees
have borne nuts for sixteen years. Mr..
Melindy was extensively known as one
of the two first settlers Of Waukesha
County.
An action has been commenced against
Sun Prairie, Dane County, by Mrs Thomas
eAA1W AO4 SS III SUM "a pO,OOO IOJ
injuries alleged to have been sustained by
her last March by falling on a defective
sidewalk.
Anton Tebal. aged seventy-eight years
fell from ladder at Tewaskum a few DAYS
ago and broke his neck.
The body OF Henry Luttropp, a middle
aged man, well known and respected, was
found on the railroad track near Hartford
the other morning with the head severed
from the body.
The name of Cosgrove Station, Barron
County, has been changed to Poskin Lake
The post-office was still Cosgrove, but would
be changed to Poskin Lake.
An AIbino squirrel was captured in Bar
ron County recently by T. ]. Stockman,
which is natural curiosity 1t is of the
red squirrel species, but is pure white, not
colored hair appearing, and is bright and
clipper, promising to tame easily.
The State Undertakers Association held
its sixth annual meeting in Milwaukee re-
Gently. There was large attendance.
A non-union sailor named Biemel, on the
barge Michigan, was attacked by several
union men at Milwaukee the other morning
and given severe beating. Biemel drew
revolver and shot one of his assailants,
Fred 'Sagel, in the groin. The wounded
man was taken to the hospital, and was re-
ported to be dying. Sagers companions
were arrested
The silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs Bal
schneider of Sheboygan Falls was attended
a few days ago by eight hundred guests
from various cities of Wisconsin.
At the Episcopal Cathedral in Milwaukee
few days ago four graduates of the Nash
ota theological school-Edward Willis, c. l.
Crittenden, Charles Schultz and F. Ferris
were ordained to the priesthood
An eleven-month- old baby in Grant Coun-
ty only weighs four and three-quarter
pounds
Mason auckland, of Fox Lake, Dodge
County, Is said to have fallen heir to $37,-
800 left by an uncle in California.
There are over one hundred and fifty
squatters holding down indemnity lands in
Sawyer County.
James Tuttle who lives near Marshfeld,
recently brought charge of murder against
Charlie Geahring, his wife, Hannah Geahr-
ing, and his brother, Fred Geahring. Tut
tie says that they murdered Theresa Tut
tie, his daughter, last August, because she
would not marry Fred
Aunu4Su DCISOllb duUeHuSu Uu6 re-
cent celebration OF the silver wedding of
Mr. and Mrs Balschneider, of Sheboygan
Falls.
City Treasurer and ex-Mayor s. Rosen-
baum died at Prairie du Chen few after
moons ago of typhoid malaria He was
Democrat, and had been an active mer-
chant there for thirty three years.
The Wisconsin CoDgregatonalists met in
forty-seventh annual session a few days ago
at Whitewater
Sohn Scroggin (colored) was arrested the
other day at Madison for outrage. His vic
tim was German woman named Mary
Olday.
Three hundred pounds of piclkerel were
caught by a Green Lake party few days
ago.
Rufus Deevs, a Milwaukee hack-driver,
stabbed his wife five times the other night
They lived apart, and he was jealous. She
would probably die
A gentleman who has hunted on the
Horizon marsh for the past eighteen years
AYERS that ducks are more plentiful there
this season than ever before
One town in Sheboygan County collected
one hundred dollars in Canada thistle fines
during the summer. Another town collect
ed seventy five dollars
Appleton is now the second city in the
county in the matter of paper production,
the yearly output being exceeded only by
that of Lockport, N Y.
Roscoe c. Miller, who shot dead Lot Cam
pion in Milwaukee during quarrel March
last was found guilty of murder in the
second degree the other day. The penalty
for murder in thu second degree is impris-
onment at hard lal or for from fourteen to
twenty-five years
At the recent annual meeting in Madison
of the State Woman's Suffrage Association
officers were elected for the ensuing year
as follows: President, Rev. Olympia Brown
Willis, of Racine Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Maria NJ. Hanchett, of Madison; Core
spending Secretary, Mrs. Lucy H. Pier, OF
Richland Center; Treasurer, DR.. S. R Nun
roe, of Milwaukee.
A young man namen William Raube was
run through by wagon-pole few days
ago while he and number of companions
were ON the road from Sister Bay, Door